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Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe: Episode 3

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Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe

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A story of a father and a daughter - and of games of chance from Jamaica to Ilford, Essex.

In Jamaica, Chick's young mother rejects him. Years later in Essex, Hannah repeats the pattern and disowns her father.

Two childhoods - a mother rejects a son, then a daughter disowns her father.
 
Poet Hannah Lowe - who grew up in 1980s Essex with a half-Chinese, half-black father - recreates his childhood in Jamaica and young adult years in the decades before he met her mother.

Read by the author.

With the recreated and imagined sections of Chick’s life read by Colin Salmon.

Abridged and produced by Jill Waters.

A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2015.

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